Drinking lemon water is simple and effective. It will have a positive impact on your health,
and you will see these small incremental changes lead to massive transformation over time.
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When I first started drinking lemon water I thought to myself well sure. It tastes good.
But I never really thought of it to be anything more than just a new spin on water. After I was
drinking it, I noticed a few things. First of all, it helped me stay away from a lot of the
sugary beverages I was addicted to. Inevitably, it helped me make better choices. But it also
was doing something else in my body that I really was not sure about. I just knew that
I had more energy and I felt better, so I decided to do a little bit of research. I was blown away.
Lemon water has real research-based benefits. Beyond tasting good, there is real evidence
saying that it will improve your health and do it naturally. I do not know who paid for this
research. Maybe it was the lemon growers because somebody always has to fund it. You know? The fact
is that it will improve your health and do it naturally. I am going to show you what
you can expect from lemon water based on the science if you are drinking it.
Before we jump into that, I want to ask you this. Do you drink lemon water? How
often are you drinking it? Let us start a conversation in the comments below.
Let us first talk about how lemon water can improve your gut health. It is very clear that
gut health issues are becoming a modern-day health crisis. Let us see if we can use lemon
water to combat these issues. According to the research, the component of lemon water that
improves your gut health is going to be the citrus bioflavonoids that are in it. There is a 2006
study that was done in the International Journal of Molecular Medicine and Advanced Sciences. It
showed that lemon water can help calm an upset stomach and also help with mild indigestion.
The reason that lemon water has the ability to do this is because it supports the hydrochloric acid
in the process of breaking down foods in your gut. When this hydrochloric process that breaks
down food starts to malfunction, it can cause a lot of different symptoms. Some symptoms that
you in many cases will see from this will be gas, bloating, and burping, and the inability to break
down foods. This is especially foods like meats and also leafy greens. For instance, if you eat
some meat sometimes it will just sit like a rock in your stomach. If you eat some leafy greens
it just will not digest it or break it down well. What we can do according to the science is drink a
little bit of lemon water with our meal or before our meal. It will really help with digestion.
Now the next benefit of lemon water is one that a lot of people are really looking forward to
especially with summer right around the corner. That is the benefit of weight loss. There was
a study that was done. It was published in the Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition.
This was done in 2008. What they found is that lemon water showed significant reduction in weight
gain when the diet was a high-fat diet. Let us say if you are following a ketogenic diet or you
are following moderate keto, it is high fat and low carb. It really helps with some weight loss.
Now if you are like me, you question this stuff a little bit. How in the world is lemon water
going to help me lose weight? Let us go back to the research. According to the research,
it is pectin and polyphenols that are the main substances found in lemons that show
weight loss and appetite suppressing qualities. This was according to a study that was published
in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. They found
that lemon water suppresses your appetite. Also, it helps lower inflammation. When you look at the
blood sugar insulin reaction, just lowering inflammation alone can help you lose weight.
Me personally, I find that if I sip on lemon water throughout the day it helps me curb my appetite
just like the research says that it does. It helps me have less of an urge to snack. Also, I think
that it helps me actually eat lesser amounts at my meals. If we are curbing our appetite
and coming in at a little bit of a calorie deficit, that alone helps you lose weight. By the
way, stick around to the end because I do have a challenge that I want you to participate in.
Let us go ahead and take a look at the next benefit of lemon water. A
lot of people are going to be really interested in this one. It has to do
with anti-aging. Who does not want to look younger? Let us go back to our handy research
here. What we found is that a study published in the Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture
told us that the high antioxidant properties in lemon water combat free radicals,
which is the primary cause of skin aging and also tissue damage.
That is not all. There are still more anti-aging benefits. There was a study in
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that showed us that plant-derived antioxidants from sources like
lemon water were able to reverse the breakdown of collagen skin fibers. That is really interesting.
Of course drinking water has its benefits, but they also found that if you were to take
lemon water with a high concentration of lemon and you were to make a skin scrub with it or
even put it on a damp cloth and pat it on your skin, it also had a lot of benefits that way.
I know we are getting a little bit heavy in the research but let us stay focused. This next
benefit of lemon water is one I find particularly interesting.
Let us keep the conversation going in the comments below as well. Which
benefit of lemon water do you find particularly valuable to your health?
Now the next benefit of lemon water, and the one that I said I find particularly interesting,
is one that many people have heard exists. They really do not know how it works or why it works.
This is the benefit of detox from lemon water. It is due mostly to the impact that it has on
the liver. Let us consult the research here. What it tells us is that lemon water contains something
called citric acid citrate. There was a study that was published in the Environmental Science
and Pollution Research International back in 2019. What they found is that the citric acid from the
lemon water can protect us from the stress that heavy metals poses on the body. If you know about
heavy metals, they are very dangerous to the body. They go and they lodge themselves in the brain,
the deep tissues, the fat tissues, and also even the bones. They can cause havoc across
all of our organ systems. This is a really good thing to protect ourselves from the heavy metals.
There is a different study that was published by Indian researchers in BMC Pharmacology.
What they found is hesperidin, a citrus bioflavonoid
found in lemons, demonstrates the ability to protect the liver
from damage. Our liver always needs protection from damage because as we mentioned before
toxins are always coming at us from the food that we eat, the clothes that we wear, and the beauty
products that we put on our body. We have to make sure that we are always protecting the liver.
Another thing that I want to mention that I have not even talked about yet is that lemons contain
between 30 and 40 milligrams of Vitamin C. That has its own subset of issues that it helps with.
If we look at Vitamin C, it has been studied extensively to support a whole myriad of
different health conditions. It has been shown to protect us against prenatal problems,
cardiovascular disease, eye diseases, skin wrinkles which we already talked about, and even
protects our immune system as well. It has also been shown to protect us against free radicals
because it acts as an antioxidant. As a result of that, it protects every cell in our body.
Let us talk practical application because that is the fun part of this whole conversation.
Over the next 15 days I challenge you to drink some lemon water every day and see how it helps
you improve your health. If you are between meals and you are getting the urge to snack,
let us say you are trying to lose a little bit of weight for summer.
Drink some lemon water and see if it helps curb your appetite. Go and take the lemon
water and use it as a replacement for that sugary soda that you may drink every day,
that high sugar tea, the energy drink, or maybe that extra cup of coffee that you really should
not be drinking anyway. Then just see from day zero to day 15. How does it help you improve
your energy and your overall vitality? If you want to participate, comment below “I am in.”
Now look. Lemon water is not going to be the answer to all your health problems or
solve every health ailment you face. It certainly is going to be a move in the
right direction. For instance, if you have things like gut issues you may want to watch
a video like this one up here that helps you reduce gut inflammation. Either way,
making these small incremental changes adds up year over year. Eventually down the road
it really is transformative and can help you improve your health naturally in every way.